COMMITTEE BUSINESS
The CSG Committee on Suggested State Legislation convened Saturday, December 1, 2001
from 8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. This was the first meeting in the 2003 SSL cycle. A
quorum was present.

The
committee implemented new procedures to enable members to vote to include, defer
or reject items on future SSL dockets. The committee will no longer refer docket
items to a fourth and final meeting of the full committee because those meetings
will no longer be held. Instead, items that the committee votes to
"include" on future dockets will be formatted immediately following
every committee meeting and published on-line in some manner at CSG's Web site.
The online segments will be compiled into a printed SSL Volume at the end of
every SSL cycle.

The
committee
considered 71 bills on this docket. It selected 18 for inclusion in the
first segment of the 2003 SSL Volume. It deferred 5 items to docket 23B. It
voted to include item 17-23A-01 in the 2003 SSL volume only
if that item references a different part of law than item 17-22D-01, which is in
the 2002 SSL Volume. The committee did not
act on item 20-23A-01 because the same item was on docket 22D. The committee
added the Uniform Money Services Act to the 2002 SSL Volume after
considering it on this docket. It rejected the remaining 45 items.

The status of all docket
items is listed below. SSL members usually direct CSG staff to find additional
legislation or information about docket items. These are recorded as notations under the
respective docket items. The notations are indicated by (a), (b), (c), etc. For example,
(23A-a) represents the first meeting (A) in the 2003 cycle and the first notation on that
docket (a). Notations from the second meeting (B) of the 2003 cycle are listed on the
next docket as (23B-a), etc. An asterisk (*) indicates the item was deferred from the previous SSL
cycle. Items that do not have a number were added to the docket at the
meeting.

The
committee directed CSG staff to create a State Anti-Terrorism Legislation
Supplement to the 2003 SSL Volume. This supplement is tentatively scheduled for
publication in January 2002. It will be prepared online as a compilation of
state legislation on the issue and updated as necessary. Readers should note
that the supplement will not reflect the committee's position on any of the
legislation that is contained within. The supplement will be available at CSG's Web site.

The next SSL meeting is tentatively scheduled for April 2002 in Coral Gables,
Florida, in conjunction with
CSG's Spring meeting.